I’m not against a national health system, but reality is we’re still just fighting for m4all. Though probably should be advocated for more, and set as a next step.

Really pissing me off since I had hoped to have a few more years before financing a solar installation.

Looks like my Ubuntu machine won’t be running Ubuntu for much longer.

They’re going to force everyone to wait until they arrest a citizen to get this thrown out.

Good doctors often have more incentive to overbook, and even less incentive to stop bad office practices as long as people keep putting up with it.

Now do health care.

I give them 5 minutes unless there’s an emergency, then it’s 15. After that I reschedule, or move to a different doctor.

Any practice that can’t keep a schedule, isn’t worth working with. Worst case scenario, take a vacation to Mexico and talk to a doctor there. Cheaper, faster, and probably better care than a US general practitioner.

That’s more what the Chinese are doing these days. Russia was pure centralized planning and control under an autocracy. The theory being that the central authority would be abolished once communism was achieved. Because everyone knows autocrats easily give up their absolute control of a country.

We used to hope our president survived an assassination attempt.

When that orange turd was elected I probably would have taken a bullet just to make sure our politics didn’t descend into violence and retribution. I’d have been insanely angry about it, but I’d have done it.

Now, it’s more like seeing someone shoplift food. I didn’t see nothin.

The real problem is that godzilla and the other titans defy physics as we know it. Making any weapon system we have probably useless. I mean what bomb penatrates plot armor?

Sure, lets just move that iron mine to the US…

Anyone know how much ram is in one of those security dogs?

Samsung has an amazing history of appliances bursting into flame, I was most impressed by the washing machine, so avoiding them isn’t a problem.

Apparently it’s worth it for commercial kitchens, and most marine cooling systems use external loops since the water is always there. In a home setting it looks like insulation is almost always more cost effective though.

Oh, to hell if my fridge will ever be showing me ads. That’s some dystopian crap right there. Also, quick connects work for cooling loops.

Not too worried about how permanent the installation is. I mean how often do you move the fridge around your kitchen? Besides, these days a lot of them have a water faucet installed for the ice maker anyway. As for efficiency, the AC has to fight the same gradient already, but with the heat being dumped inside it has to overcome it twice.

It would add complexity and points of breakage, so it would need to be a robust enough system to make it worth it, which fights against it adding enough efficiency to be worth it.

Id rather have one that sends it’s heat outside the house so my AC isn’t fighting the fridge. And reverse that in the winter.

Black swan implies it wasn’t predictable, and that it’s an unprecedented change. A 4 year high from an entirely predictable action isn’t a Black swan event. All we’re seeing is the entirely predictable stress of a dumb ass closing a major shipping channel. It’s serious, but not as bad as the covid supply chain mess.

Get back to me when we have a 50 year high due to a sudden weather event or revolution.

Trap door spider.

At the highest level, war is economics. Cheaper weapons win if you can make enough of them. That’s how Ukraine is winning with drones. No matter how many poor bastards Putin throws into the meat grinder, they’re still more expensive than a bullet or a drone. If Putin was able to make unlimited $5 Shahed drones, he could take over the world, even if it missed 90% of the time. Cheaper makes up for better, when you can get volume. The only reason this hasn’t been instantly obvious in Ukraine, is because Putin started with a mountain of cash and resources.